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Oakland, January 10, 2019 – Kaiser Permanente’s Care Management Institute will host a webinar with the National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs titled “Innovative Approaches to Complex Care.” The hour-long webinar will take place January 16th and will focus on innovative best practices used in caring for individuals facing intersecting medical, behavioral and […]...

On December 5-7, 2018, over 650 complex care innovators from across sectors and across the country gathered in Chicago for the third annual Putting Care at the Center conference, the only annual conference on complex care in America. For three days, attendees networked, learned from other innovators, and shared how they and their colleagues are […]...

December 6, 2018 The only annual national conference in America on complex care brings together leaders and organizations furthering the field of complex care for three days of workshops, presentations, and convenings More than 25 influential organizations have endorsed the Blueprint for Complex Care, a framework for the new field of complex care authored by […]...

The Blueprint for Complex Care is complete: after a whirlwind year of research, interviews, surveys, writing, and re-writing with our partners at the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), the strategic plan for the field of complex care will be unveiled in December at Putting Care at the […]...

November 16, 2018 National Center to release the Blueprint for Complex Care, a guide for advancing the field The field of complex care will convene in Downtown Chicago during the first week of December at the third annual Putting Care at the Center conference. Putting Care at the Center is the only conference on complex […]...

Dear National Center partners, Since I joined the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers as CEO in March, I have had the privilege of leading our regional, state, and national complex care initiatives, including our National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs. It is an exciting moment to be leading this work: we’re seeing an […]...

At its core, delivering person-centered care requires partnering with those receiving the care. These partnerships are key to identifying an individual’s needs and goals as well as redesigning care systems around what matters to patients and what impacts their wellbeing. Our work in Camden redesigning care delivery would not be possible without partnership with our […]...

Nearly 50,000 individuals died of opioid overdoses in 2017. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that opioid overdose deaths increased by nearly 45 percent between 2015 and 2017. As opioid overdose deaths continue to rise, policymakers across the country are working diligently to fund and implement solutions. This week, Congress sent a package […]...

Putting Care at the Center 2018, the third annual conference of the National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs, will take place this December is and co-hosted with Rush University Medical Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Early bird tickets are on sale now, and the $100 discount off of general admission prices has been extended […]...

Last November we sent out a survey to our National Center audience, asking what you wanted from National Center programming. Informed in part by the feedback we received, this summer we completed a strategic plan for the National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs. The strategic plan maps out priorities, objectives, and tactics for […]...

In 2016, CareOregon, Oregon’s Medicaid health plan and longtime provider of complex care services to its Medicaid-eligible population, was ready for a big win. CareOregon had worked with the state to apply for a Medicaid 1115 waiver that would allow them to use Medicaid funding more flexibly. The plan was to use Medicaid funds to […]...

Cross-sector data sharing is lauded as an integral part of complex care. Sharing data between multiple sectors—such as behavioral health, medical, criminal justice, housing, and education—seems like a straightforward way to understand people’s complex health and social needs and provide whole-person care. In practice, however, sharing data isn’t always so simple. Most organizations that want […]...

The National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs is an initiative of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, a nonprofit organization working in Camden, NJ to innovate and test person-centered healthcare delivery models to improve patient outcomes and reduce the cost of their care. The National Center’s local roots inform its approach to working […]...

The Interprofessional Student Hotspotting Learning Collaborative was recognized on July 31 for its exemplary contributions to interprofessional education at the 2018 Nexus Summit, hosted by the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education in Minneapolis. The evolving field of healthcare, specifically for patients with complex health and social needs, requires innovative, cross-sector approaches to train […]...

Though Brenda Wiewel may not have always called it complex care, she has spent her social work career providing integrated, team-based care tailored around the needs of the most vulnerable. Now, as director of the University of Southern California (USC)’s University Initiative to Eliminate Homelessness, she is taking her work to a larger scale and […]...

While hundreds of innovative complex care models exist across the country, few of them have been successfully replicated or scaled beyond a single site. Replicating exemplary health care models is critical to the advancement of complex care, and to effecting the kind of systems change that the field is working toward. That’s why the National […]...

In the complex care field, we know that providing better care to the people who need it most is more critical than ever. We also know that the healthcare systems we have in place right now aren’t working for populations with complex health and social needs: we need care that is built on personal relationships […]...

June 27, 2018 Bestselling author, MacArthur genius, and executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people The National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs today named advocate Ai-jen Poo keynote speaker at its third annual Putting Care At the Center Conference in Chicago. The […]...

Complex care is about addressing people’s social and medical needs, but most hospitals and health systems are only set up to do the latter. And while hospitals can make great strides towards better care by using data to identify individuals with complex health and social needs, deploying interprofessional teams, and improving care coordination, much of […]...

As we work to coalesce the field of complex care, it is people with complex health and social needs who are best positioned to identify the changes we need: consumer leadership is therefore fundamental to the work of the National Center. In Camden, NJ, we are governed by a Community Advisory Council and have effected […]...

This Office Hours session features Laura Buckley, Senior Program Manager for Innovation Operations; Dawn Wiest, Director of Action Research and Evaluation; and Tyson Smith, Senior Program Manager for Qualitative Research, who all work on the Camden RESET program at the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. Individuals with complex health and social needs interact with a […]...

This informational webinar provides an overview of the three types of presentation opportunities for the Putting Care at the Center 2018 conference: workshops, Beehive presentations, and Satellite Sessions. Conference team members walked through the differences between each presentation category, described the application process, and took questions from potential applicants. To learn more about presenting at […]...

Lauran Hardin, our Senior Director of Cross-Continuum Transformation, was inducted in April as a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice (NAP). Lauran was one of 17 Nursing Fellows and 84 Fellows overall inducted in the Class of 2018. NAP works to advance interprofessional healthcare and represents 14 different health professions, including nursing, social […]...

Individuals with complex health and social needs often cycle through various systems— including healthcare, social services, and criminal justice— without cross-sector communication or coordination. Cross-sector data sharing can help break down some of the barriers to providing whole-person care, but the process of creating strong data-sharing partnerships can be daunting. With support from the Aetna […]...

Apply to bring a consumer from your organization to Putting Care at the Center 2018 Does your organization have consumers who are engaged in advocacy, outreach, or systems change? Are you a person with complex health and social needs who is interested in improving how care is delivered across the country? Putting Care at the […]...

We are at a pivotal point in the field of complex care. More than ever before, large health systems, payers, state governments, and federal agencies are recognizing the benefits of complex care approaches and incorporating them into their care delivery, policy, and payment models. At the ground level, innovators around the country are pushing the […]...

We are now accepting Satellite Session proposals for Putting Care at the Center 2018, our annual conference on complex care. This year’s conference theme is Complex Care, Today and Tomorrow. We will delve into complex care models that have been developed across the country and explore directions for future innovation. We are excited to add your voice to the […]...

We are now accepting Beehive presentation proposals for Putting Care at the Center 2018, our annual conference on complex care. This year’s conference theme is Complex Care, Today and Tomorrow. We will delve into complex care models that have been developed across the country and explore directions for future innovation. We are excited to add your voice […]...

We are now seeking workshop proposals for Putting Care at the Center 2018, our annual conference on complex care. This year’s conference theme is Complex Care, Today and Tomorrow. We will delve into complex care models that have been developed across the country and explore directions for future innovation. We are excited to add your voice […]...

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